8 december 2012

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

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"Some day you will be old enough
to start reading fairy tales again."
~ CS Lewis~

LAST ONE IN'S A ROTTEN EGG!

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OH, PLEASE DO COME IN...and join us for Apple Blossom Tea...Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle has just washedthe nappykins and has set the table!~Beatix Potter,The tale of Miss Tiggy Winkle~

Every child is an artist.The problem is how to remainan artist once he grows up.~Pablo Picasso~

'We are going to be the best of friends,'said Gilbert, jubilantly.'We were born to be good friends, Anne.'~Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 38~

I enjoy doing housework,ironing, washing, cooking,dishwashing.Whenever I get one of thosequestionaires and they askwhat is your profession,I always put down housewife.It's an admirable profession,why apologize for it.You aren't stupid because you're a housewife.When you're stirring the jam you canread Shakespeare.~Tasha Tudor~

I wonderIf I've been changed in the night?Let me think.Was I the samewhen I got up this morning?I almost think I canremember feeling a little different.But if I'm not the same,the next question is'Who in the world am I?'Ah, that's the great puzzle!"~Alice in Wonderland~

"Some day you will be old enoughto start reading fairy tales again."~ CS Lewis~

"You know I always thoughtunicorns were fabulous creatures too,although I never saw one alive before.""Well now that we have met,"said the unicorn,"If you believe in me, I'll believe in you."~Lewis Carrol~

Oh, No, What else?There must be more to life than this?Just a mole, living in a hole...I wouldn't mind it all so much,that it wasn't so... so boring...That's it! boring...It's also boring being a mole!Boring...~From the Wind in the Willows~

If I had a world of my own,everything would be nonsense.Nothing would be what it is,because everythingwould be what it isn't.And contrary wise,what is, it wouldn't be.And what it wouldn't be,it would.You see?"~Alice in Wonderland~

"I declare after allthere is no enjoyment like reading!How much sooner onetires of any thing than of a book! --When I have a house of my own,I shall be miserableif I have not an excellent library."~Jane Austen~Pride and Prejudice

The fairy tale . . .gives not only pleasure,it gives form and inspiration.~Max Luthi~

"Good books, like good friends,are few and chosen;the more select, the more enjoyable."~Louisa May Alcott~

Stories don't always endwhere their authors intended.But there is joy in following them,wherever they take us.~Beatrix Potter~

Only as high as I reach can I growOnly as far as I seek can I goOnly as deep as I look can I seeOnly as much as I dream can I be~Karen Ravn~-------------------------------------------Don't cry when the sun is gone,because the tears won't let yousee the stars~Violeta Parra~

"Reading a great work of literaturecan truly be likened to havinga conversation with a great mind."~Jennie Chancey~

I like living.I have sometimes been wildly,despairingly, acutely miserable,racked with sorrow,but through it all I still know quite certainlythat just to be alive is a grand thing.~Agatha Christie~

A dream is a wish your heart makeswhen you're fast asleep.In dreams you will lose your heartache.Whatever you wish for, you keep.Have faith in your dreams, and someday,your rainbow will come smiling through.No matter how your heart is grieving,if you keep on believing,the dreams that you wish will come true.

"It is not often that someonecomes alongwho is a true friend and a good writer.Charlotte was both."~E.B. White, Charlotte's Web~

‘Look through this glass, Gerda,’ said he.And every flake seemed larger,and appeared like a magnificent flower,or beautiful star; it was splendid to look at!‘Look, how clever!’ said Kay.‘That's much more interestingthan real flowers!They are as exact as possible;there is not a fault in them,if they did not melt!’~From: The Snowqueen~

All our dreams can come true,if we have the courage to pursue them.~Walt Disney~

"The pleasure of all reading is doubledwhen one lives whith anotherwho shares the same books."~K. Mansfield~

"Beyond the Wild Wood comesthe Wild World," said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter,either to you or me. I've never been there,and I'm never going, nor you either,if you've got any sense at all..."~from The Wind in the Willows~

Books are the plane,and the train,and the road.They are the destination,and the journey.They are home.~Anna Quindlen~

"Far away in the sunshine are myhighest aspirations.I may not reach them, but I can look upand see their beauty, believe in them,and try to follow where they lead"~Louisa May Alcott~

"Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them!How I need them!I'll have a long beardby the time I read them."~Arnold Lobel~

I have dreamed in my life,dreams that have stayed with meever after, and changed my ideas;they have gone through and through me,like wine through water,and altered the color of my mind.~Emily Bronte~

Oh that clock! Old Kill Joy.I hear you!!Come on, Get up! You say,Time to start another day!Even he orders me around.Well...There's one thing.They can't order me to stop dreaming...~from Cinderella 1950~

"Fairy tales have alwaysgot to have somethinga bit scary for children- as long as you make them laugh as well,”~Roald Dahl~

Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922)

Gardening is about enjoyingthe smell of things growing in the soil,getting dirty without feeling guilty,and generally taking the time tosoak up a little peace and serenity.~Lindley Karstens~

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children, She didn’t know what to do! She gave them some broth without any bread- she whipped them all around- and put them to bed! ~Beatrix Potter~

I am writing in the garden.To write as one should of a gardenone must write not outside it ormerely somewhere near it,but ín the garden.~Frances Hodgson Burnett~